JULIE LOYD: The Waiting Room

Julie Loyd

The Waiting Room

© 2005 Julie Loyd/BMI (880567100128)

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Lyric Folk-Rock with a Feminist/Queer bent. For driving and/or getting over someone and/or indulging anger. The lust-child of Jonatha Brooke, Ani Difranco and Alanis Morisette. (It could happen...)

tracks

1 Secret of Your Own
2 Tuesday to Tuesday
3 Normal
4 The Big Goodbye
5 The Rocket Boys
6 The Independent
7 More Than I Meant To
8 The Waiting Room
9 Insomnia Song
10 The Best Years
11 Taste of Copper

notes

The scene opens like this. Open mic night. Seventeen. Alone. The only girl on the list. The only girl in the room. Julie Loyd stands on stage wailing away on a cheap guitar- wearing another hole in the finish, weaving a tune with a set of gutsy vocals and stomping out a rhythm with a set of steel-toed combat boots. Two songs later, Julie steps off stage and puts her guitar back in its case. A fellow musician walks up to her and says, simply, "give up everything before you give up this."
When Julie recalls her favorite audience reactions, this easily tops her list. Originally a dancer and child of musical theater, Julie Loyd's music comes across best on stage. In the five years since that open mic, Julie has expanded her horizons playing all around the country and sharing stages with such performers as Shawn Mullins, Michelle Malone, Ellis, and Edie Carey, to name a few. Though she's left behind the Broadway vibrato, she uses her movement experience to step inside her songs, contorting, kicking, and undulating to the beat of her own percussive guitar playing. She has a knack for making folk dynamic: "I'm tired of folk being seen as boring. Just because I'm playing an acoustic guitar doesn't mean I'm going to be singing about the mountains-and if I am, I'm singing loud."
Born and raised alongside the Blue Ridge Mountains in Charlottesville, Virginia, Julie has been struggling with her southern roots and her Yankee mentality since she was a kid. She was seventeen when she finally decided to head towards the Big Apple, leaving her small town behind her. In New York, she became a student at New York University studying gender, sexuality, and performance-a major that could only lead her to the life of a folk musician, singing about lesbian relationships in a way that universalizes even those lifestyles considered to be "alternative."
Julie decided to leave the city after the World Trade Center attacks of 2001 and retrace her southern roots. She found herself in Asheville, NC, at the southern edge of the Appalachians-the same mountain range she grew up with. Within a few months, Julie was making a living touring full-time around the Southeast. After playing her first national tour last summer, Julie Loyd returned to New York City to work on her third studio album. Julie has teamed up with David Perlick Molinari, a producer who has worked extensively with MTV and Cinemax, for a project that fuses confessional acoustic folk-rock with innovative pop production. After three years of waiting, fans can expect Julie's intensity to come across more than ever on the new album, aptly titled "The Waiting Room."

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  • author: Minor 7th Webzine

    She's like the best of Lisa Loeb - tasteful crunchy rock with an acoustic guitar center plus vulnerable but strong vocals. Don't expect soulful finger picking on every piece, though -- some cuts feature a more aggressive guitar style like Ani Difranco. Angry and personal, most of the songs stand as vignettes about a past relationship. I'm not always sure exactly what's going on but I know she's pissed. "The More I Meant To" is more vivid than most, using a bar scene where, "I got you a pint but by the end of the night / it looked like I'd lost another round." Standout cut is "The Waiting Room," a powerful feminist piece -- "We are 10 million women waiting for someone to ask us to dance." If you've been through a recent break-up, crank this album up to window-rattling decibels, sing along and know that next time, you won't wait for someone to ask you to dance.

  • i love it!
    author: Lisa

    I just started a new job, and the album The Waiting Room keeps running through my head, keeping me sane. I absolutely LOVE "The Big Goodbye" and "More Than I Meant To." Her music is the type that says so many different things to different people. She's got tough guitar playing and a smooth voice, ready to get rough. Keep the CDs coming (like the live one coming out)!

  • beautiful
    author: Emily

    I can't stop listening to it, there are a few songs I prefer and have Almost memorized, I sing it walking down the street...beautiful differences within and between each song, each makes its own mark within my heart, thanks Julie.

  • amazing album- causes me to become lost in thought
    author: Rebecca

    This album mixes genius lyrics with varying musical styles. One track opens with an accordian and other tracks mix in a french horn or a bassoon. Julie's lyrics put complex emotions into words- this album wraps you up in the music. I feel like I am in a daze while listening to this CD because it causes so many thoughts to come bubbling up. You have heard the phrase a "thinker movie" while this is a "thinker album." I recommend this album to anyone and everyone.

  • picturesque
    author: Brianna Lane

    The first track of Julie Loyd’s latest release The Waiting Room jumps right into innovative pop rock sounds of gritty percussion and muffled vocal effects. These unfamiliar yet intriguingly powerful sounds blend sweetly with Loyd’s skillful guitar playing and catchy melodies. Every track presents a new story not only told by intelligent lyrics but by composition and instrumentation perfectly layered like a picturesque wedding cake. The title track is a refreshingly original lesbian anthem which presents the bittersweet notion that we are not alone although we often feel as if we are always waiting solo.

  • Amazing
    author: Rachel

    I loved this CD from the first listen. This is not an album that you have to worry about skipping around while listening to find a good song. Track 4 (The Big Goodbye) is my personal favourite. Absolutely amazing CD, great songs for any mood. LOVED it!!!!

  • Excellent, unique, and finally something different!
    author: Amy

    After a few years of not seeing Julie on stage, it's great to see that in this cd she has continued to write consistently solid songs. It's refreshing to hear some great folk music, a breath of fresh air from the pop repeatedly on the radio, and Julie has also broadened her horizons on this one and stepped out of the box with her sound. Highly recommended!

  • pretty good
    author: Kate

    i've listened to this disc a few times. she's definitely not creating anything that hasn't been done before, but it's pretty steady throughout.

  • a stunning must have.
    author: craigkleemann.com

    Stupendous effort, fantastic production. this album puts to shame artists who hide behind the glitz and sparkle of digital production and presents a cohesive work of fantastic songwriting complimented by Molinari's expert finishing touches. Music to make love to.

  • Great work
    author: JenWoodhouse.com

    The Waiting Room is Julie's best CD thus far. She's a great songwriter. Period. The songs on this CD are more accessible (radio-friendly?) than her previous stuff, but they still preserve that dynamic, interesting, and contemplative quality she's known for. Her guitar work is percussive, driving, and unique... she does it better than most guys out there. Her vocal delivery, strong and uncompromising. Rock on, Julie!

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